Here you see one of the last images of our beautiful Christmas Day this year. As the sun disappeared over Deer Isle, its afterglow became an undulating flow of rose and lemon light:
And, as those warm colors waned, a mackerel sky signal started to form:
As you may know, a mackerel sky is formed by rippling altocumulus or cirrocumulus clouds that sometimes resemble the scales on the side of a fish. They indicate high winds and, often, a significant weather change. The old saying is this: “Mackerel sky, mackerel sky: never long wet, never long dry.”
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on December 25, 2023.)